Ludwig Steiner: Dachau concentration camp release permit 1940

Oranienburg (Concentration camp)

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Dachau (Concentration camp)

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The Dachau concentration camp was established in March 1933. It was the first regular concentration camp established by the National Socialist (Nazi) government. It was located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the northeastern part of the town of Dachau in southern Germany. During the first year, the camp had a capacity of 5,000 prisoners. Initially the internees were primarily German Communists, Social Democrats, trade unionists, and other political opponents of the Nazi re...

Steiner - Ludwig - b 1872

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Ludwig Steiner was born in 1872 in Zirl, Austria. He was arrested on 29 September 1939 and imprisoned at the Gestapo prison Innsbruck. Every day one person of the family "kept watch" and stood outside the prison as Ludwig Steiner could sometimes be seen at a window on the top floor of the building. On 7 December 1939 he was transferred to Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg concentration camp and later to Dachau. He was released on 20 September 1940 having lost almost 50 kg of body weight and having susta...